Edward Zwick

There's a great tradition of actors taking on parts of much less obvious sympathy. ”

I think every culture - you can call it an American Ronin, a medieval knight errant, you could talk about 'Shane.' There is an archetype that I think is actually common to a lot of cultures, and even the Clint Eastwood stuff was probably as influenced by the Japanese stuff, and yet done by an Italian. ”

Stories are one of the means by which a culture preserves its identity. ”

Romantic comedy has come to mean a couple of moderately talented actors placed in implausible situations obliged to go through a set of paces that are all too familiar, the end result being neither romantic nor comedic. ”

People who have any kind of illness use humor as a type of coping. ”

Often, romantic comedies exist in a vacuum, and it's kind of odd. ”

There is nothing that is so serious that you can't also see its comic side. Comedy is a way of talking about the most serious things. ”

Yes, illness is serious, but the indignities are also funny. And that defines my world view. ”

The funny thing is, when you look at photos of Tuvia Bielski, he was fair, blue-eyed, and could pass for a Gentile. ”

It's one thing to plan and imagine what you want on a film, but when you actually arrive and survey the scene, there's a moment of, 'Oh my God, what was I thinking?' ”